a promise and a secret
written in stone
clutched like a dying heart
a life untethered
in the loveless ether
neither held
nor hoped for
too painful to remember
too impossible to forget
an anomaly of dark matter
gone supernova
between the rock of truth
and the hard place of hurt
nerves exposed in stars’ ignition
transmissions muted
space at a standstill
for it is
both now…
and never again.
Edward L. Canavan (January 19, 1971 – ) is an American poet whose work has been published in such underground and revolutionary journals as Bleeding Hearts, Vice and Verse, Eagle’s Flight, and Oxford Comma. He currently resides in a small room by the freeway in North Hollywood, Ca.
